Learning+Symphony


 * This page contains links and resources for the Learning Symphony Training held on Monday, August 15 in the afternoon:**

1. Learning Symphony Introduction: http://www.stixy.com/guest/134646

2. From graphic organizer on November Learning Videos: Go to the discussion tab above and post the insight that you would like to share with other participants.

3. Puzzle Pieces Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/a/springbranchisd.com/document/d/18oLQ-I3kj-44zt9HWVTWhwwFT6CMBZ_n1-bYmLNI-hI/edit?hl=en_US

Notes Shared from Art Nevarez about Alan November's talk at the convocation:

Hey NMS!! Hope everyone is doing well! As we all know it is a crazy beginning this year with all of the construction going on!! But let’s remember, everything is being done so that we have a much nicer place to teach our students...EVENTUALLY...and sometimes it takes understanding, patience, teamwork, support...etc.,.. to get through it. I looks like everyone is doing that too!! Enough rambling.....Sorry!!

I wanted to share some great notes that were shared with me from Allen November. Have a great evening!!

Good afternoon!

Here is the list of websites presented at the symposium, I tried to take quick notes of what was being said.

[] Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

[] this is the official website of the author in the symposium.

[] this is the archive of some of the articles presented during the symposium

The author suggested the iPad application named ”auditorium” which enables you to record video and write notes, the suggested use for this application is to record gives interviews or to create projects to be posted online, other uses can be to create podcasts or documentaries of what was learned the previous week, or to create learning videos for other students to use. The authors strongly suggested that the teacher learn how to create this before showing the students what they can do with this technology by watching the videos.

[] the website has educational videos to learn almost anything for free according to their website.

[] this website can be used to find answers to math questions, instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge—and much more.

The author talked about the importance of empathy and suggests the fifth grade books “Three cups of tea” and “Number the stars” He proceeded to show a YouTube video about number the stars book

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He also talked about the importance of being sensitive to the audience and research from different countries perspectives.

He suggested the site [] that gives the 2 letter country code for every country in the world. This can be used when searching in Google where in the search field you can input the two letter country code to research websites of a certain country

"number the stars" site:dk

Limits the results with web addresses from Denmark, this is useful for research based on a country perspective.

"breast cancer" site:gov

This query limits the results for breast cancer from government websites

“breast cancer” site:edu

This query limits the results for breast cancer from higher education websites, he compared this type of query to indexing in a book and suggested teaching students how to use Google in an effective way.

link:martinlutherking.org

This query returns the links made from one website to another.

link:martinlutherking.org site:edu

This query sorts links coming from an edu website. The author also showed how to use the timeline feature on the left of the Google results page to narrow down the results based to the last day, month or year.

Use the website [] to find out with the owner of a certain webpage.

The website [] is useful for the Wayback machine which brings the website the way it was saved at different points in the past.

The author also gave an example of a classroom where every student has their own blog at []

The author with the help of a student demonstrated how to create a timeline online using []

The author highlighted the importance of critical thinking and checking the veracity of the information when doing online research. To demonstrate he showed an example of a bogus website with information about the tree octopus space here:

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The author suggested to have students create diigo accounts at [] with the parents permission so they can save a bookmark along with some content and keywords from that website but nothing else, this information can be retrieved later from any other computer with Internet connection. This can be their own personal library that can follow them throughout the years in school, there are tutorials in YouTube on how to use diigo.

The author showed the use of [] to find tweets regarding certain information around the world.